Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

Now climb, young grasshopper, so your Kung Fu won't be weak.

You're problem is, you underestimate me because I'm a woman.

It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

Rack your brains, that should only take a couple of seconds.

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.

Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.

If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection.

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it.

I live in the South; there are Confederate flags everywhere.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

If you can't love crudeness, how can you truly love mankind?

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue.

Astonishingly, not all girls get dressed just to please men.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

What is death to me? I have sown the seeds others will reap.

For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.

War mages ordered, threatened and bitched. They didn't deal.

In literature, older women are not often given center stage.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

I think that it's really important to go away and come back.

There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.

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